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If you happen to be:
1. Physically disabled (an registered as such)
2. A court or tribunal
3. A police organization
or
4. A registered religious or charitable organization

Only the above are officially exempt from the Levy.

So, I propose we start a new religion.

I wrote to the minister of heritage back in 2000, but the reply was an idiotic form letter that basically said “Too bad”.

I run a recording studio, and realistically about 2 CDs of every hundred that I use might have copywrited material on it. All the rest are my own music, or new music created by my clients. The common battle cry is why the hell would I (or my customers) want Celine Dion to get any money from our efforts? (Since obviously it will mostly be the big-selling acts who get a lion-share of the proceeds)

Refuse to shop anywhere that carries this levy. Buy all your blanks on-line.

To those who were wondering about the iPods and MP3 player levies. You can expect that to happen sometime soon. It has already been seriously discussed among those who wrote this law. It will easily add a few hundred dollars to the price of such a device.

I’m deadly serious.

Think it through before you knock it down.

You’re a musician, you release a song to the torrent pool. Depending on how popular it is (measured by downloads) you get remunerated. If it’s really popular, you’re rich.

Or, you’re a user. You pay a small flat fee. (I’d be happy for it to be double my current ISP bill.) For that fee you get all the content you want. Anything and everything. Totally legal.

Even the arsehole corporations will have a win. The old content they own can be remunerated as well.

It would streamline the delivery of content directly from producer to consumer and deliver an income based on popularity. Not worth even thinking about?

1) The levy DOES NOT protect you from corporate extorionists. If you believe it does your sadly mistaken.

2) ISP Levy? ARE U KIDDING?

3) REAL artists DONT get paid a cent from the levy. Frankly I still cant find the dotted line. Wheres my CPCC cheque? Oh thats right im not a member of the “Big/criminal” 4.

My DATA is NOT a royalty for the Canadian recording industry.

1) Levy a flat fee on all ISPs.
2) Create a big pool of cash from those fees.
3) Bring torrents in from the cold and get users to register (probably linked through their ISP for security).
4) Let artists register their torrents.
5) Track what’s being downloaded and divvy up the pool of cash based on percentages.

Sure there will lots of probs and smart-arse posters will come up with all sorts of work-arounds like zombiebots stacking certain artist’s numbers, but we can fine tune it.

Just a creative attempt at a solution to this mess. We need more of those.

My 25$ mp3 player holds about 10 cd’s worth of music and takes up roughly the same space in my pocket as my zippo lighter :-)

“I cannot see a real difference between a library that places a photocopy machine in a room full of copyrighted material and a computer user that places a personal copy on a shared directory linked to a P2P service. The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution. Before it constitutes distribution, there must be a positive act by the owner of the shared directory, such as sending out the copies or advertising that they are available for copying.”

Link to the ruling explanation on the lawyer’s website: http://www.robic.ca/publications/Pdf/274.16-BGA.pdf
Article on the topic: http://www.lces.ca/Backgrounder23/

Have you ever noticed on the spindles of blank CDs in the stores, some are labeled specifically for music and some are labeled specifically for data? The music CD-Rs are priced higher, because they have the levy, and nobody buys these unless they must. The only time they must is if they are using a CD recording deck. Each music CD-R has an embedded code that identifies it as a music CD-R rather than a data CD-R, and when you insert a blank CD into a CD recording deck, it looks for the code and will refuse to burn the CD if it does not have the code. CD recording decks also have other encumbrances such as Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) as mandated by the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA).

But if you are using a burner drive connected to a PC, you can burn music onto a data CD-R, and there is no levy. This is because the AHRA exempted recording devices and media which do not have digital audio as their primary purpose, such as CD burner drives and blank CDs specifically labeled as “for data”.

I don’t know the specifics about Canada. It could be the same as the United States, with the levy applying only to blank “audio” CD-Rs and not “data” CD-Rs. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Canadian music industry had flimflammed their way into collecting money from all blank CDs on the assumption that they are used for audio, and if that is the case then similar logic could be applied to create a copyright tax on your internet connection on the assumption that you’re downloading music and movies.

welfare people get infaltion for costs
your pay check prolly went up by that same amount
so no more increases beyond inflation.

Co. should offer this if they dont already

I’ve had the same two packs of 100 CDs for nearly 2 years. I’ve only just begun on the second pack.

Actually you can apply for an exemption to the levy…

“Under certain terms and conditions (known as the zero-rating program), the CPCC used to waive the levy on sales of some media to certain persons or organizations. These included

* religious organizations
* broadcasters
* law enforcement agencies
* courts
* tribunals
* court reporters
* provincial ministers of education
* members of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
* music and advertising industries ”

http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml#anyone_exempt

So Joe Band could get levy free CDR’s.

They are not taking any hit.. they just don’t pay the levy. Lots of places sell levy free CDR’s. It is just the big guys (Like Maxell and Sony) that pay the levy… Ritek ain’t paying no stinking levy.

I’m hereby saying that I’m not going to buy any more cds, inclusive of online music sales.

I use cds for variety of purposes mostly to backup my own work, but with added taxes on cds it makes no sense why I’m penalized.

I see no reason why I should continue to support them, when either way they’re going to get paid. If I choose not to listen or pirate any of their music, but buy cds to be used to backup my word documents or home videos – they still get paid even though they had no part in the content the cd was used for.

Why should I do the ‘right’ thing, the moral thing, when they’re already stealing from me? I say screw them, screw Universal, screw EMI, screw SOCAN.

I’m going to pirate everything now. And since I’ve started to use less and less cds, I’m just going to go buy portable harddrive from an American online retalier, then have it shipped to me and use that to backup everything + plus I’ll use it to pirate all the music, movies and software I want. And I’ll do it in a smart way so I don’t get caught using torrents or p2p – there’s nothing they can do to stop me.

I live in Canada and I’ve never paid more than 25¢ per CD (I am nothing if not cheap). And that is purchased at retail prices (spindles of 50-100).

Maybe it is possible that some of these companies aren’t paying the levies. The number can’t be right otherwise.

As the manufacturer, wholesaler, & retailer are splitting less than 4¢. On occasion I’ve bought them at prices less than 21¢ so everyone would be taking a loss.

Best price I ever got (from a canadian retailer) was 12¢ per CD although the CDs themselves were horrible so it wasn’t much of a deal.

jess
http://www.anonymity.cz.tc

I don’t think so…